> But the facts are not on Hardin’s side. For one, he got the history of the commons wrong. As Susan Cox pointed out, early pastures were well regulated by loca

> But the facts are not on Hardin’s side. For one, he got the history of the commons wrong. As Susan Cox pointed out, early pastures were well regulated by local institutions. They were not free-for-all grazing sites where people took and took at the expense of everyone else. This only goes to further the value of the metaphor! The hypothetical problem of the pasture being overgrazed has a well-documented solution, and intuition is that similarly-shaped solutions (regulation) would help solve metaphorical "overgrazing" in other areas.